VIDEO READINGS (5) Paulo Domingos & Emanuel Cameira, Audrey Szasz, Sara Oliveira, Rui Baião & Mariana Gomes, Rick Harsch

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  Paulo da Costa Domingos

  Paulo da Costa Domingos is a self-taught writer, publisher, and book antiquarian. He started publishing poetry at the age of 19, still during the Portuguese dictatorship, and has published over fifty volumes, remarkable among which are his poetic anthology Urbe Sub Rosa – Carmes 1972-2021 (Barco Bêbado, 2022). His prose was published as Narrativa ([Narrative] Alambique, 2016) and A Morte dos Outros – Pastiches & Visões ([The Death of Others – Pastiches and Visions] Alambique, 2023). Domingos is further known as the publisher of the publishing house Frenesi, a house where – self-taught and son of a cartographic draftsman – he has turned graphic arts into an unyielding vortex amidst the aesthetic mud pulsating in commercial bookshelves. The graphic design of the catalogue of the publishing house Barco Bêbado is his most recent litmus test of half a century of acquired skills.

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  Emanuel Cameira

  Emanuel Cameira is a sociologist and since 2020, the chief publisher of Barco Bêbado (The Drunken Boat) where, to date, he has published works by Carlo Levi, Christian Bobin, Critical Art Ensemble, David Wojnarowicz, Gary J. Shipley, Gilles Deleuze, Gilles Ivain, Gregory Corso, Guy Debord, Julián Ríos, Kenji Siratori, Louis Armand, Melchior Vischer, Michael Mc Aloran, Paulo da Costa Domingos, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pierre Alferi, Rui Baião, Sean Bonney, Sergio Solmi, Victor Shklovsky, and William S. Burroughs, among others. His publisher’s motto is: cuspo fraternalmente em vós (I spit on you fraternally), a verse by the Portuguese poet José Manuel Pressler.

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  Audrey Szasz

  Audrey Szasz (a.k.a. Zutka) is a writer and performer based in London. She is the author of the novels Counterillumination, Zealous Immaculate, and Tears of a Komsomol Girl. Her first solo novella, Invisibility: A Manifesto appeared in 2020, published by Amphetamine Sulphate. Audrey’s latest book Rubber Anne was released in July 2024 and is available via Infinity Land Press. @szasz_audrey audreyszasz.com

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  Sara de Oliveira

  Sara de Oliveira (a.k.a Mus Rattus / Fuhrer Duhrer / Marquesa do Sabre) is a multidisciplinary fetishist artist based in Portugal, working through the paths of decomposed audiovisual and independent production. May it be damaged soundscapes, handmade collages, giallo worship, text experimentation and xerox printing, she's been developing her artwork in the maverick world since 2013. With a kinky trademark, the artist aims to explore different routes of underground expression, simultaneously using rough visuals, distorted audio, vocals and textures for live reading and singing collaborations.

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  Rui Baiao

  Rui Baião was born in Lisbon, Portugal, where he resides and has practiced Medicine until 2020. Baião has published the following titles: Quiasma (frenesi); MIX DIXIT (frenesi); nihil (frenesi); Aqueduto (& etc); SIÃO (frenesi); Maligno (frenesi), Nuez, with photos by Paulo Nozolino (frenesi); bone lonely, with photos by Paulo Nozolino (Steidl, Germany); naevus (Abysmo); Asco (DSO, Coimbra); Rude (Averno); Insane (Averno); Antro (Averno), Barbearia Tiqqun (viúva frenesi); balabela (Bestiário); paciente zero (Barco Bêbado); SCARAMUCCIA (Bestiário); STRANGVLATORIVM (Barco Bêbado); MOTIM (Barco Bêbado); SEGREDOS D’ESTADO, with photos by Anders Petersen (Barco Bêbado).

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  Mariana Gomes

  Mariana Gomes lives and works in Lisbon. She graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in 2007. She has been exhibiting since 2008, having received an honorable mention in the Fidelidade/Mundial Young Painters Award in 2011. Her career includes several solo and collective exhibitions, including Neo-Post-Neo, at Galeria Cristina Guerra –Contemporary Art (Lisbon, 2023), Canhota, at Fundação Carmona e Costa (Lisbon, 2019), and Stop Making Sense!, at Fundação EDP (Lisbon, 2013). Her work is represented in several national and international collections.

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  Rick Harsch

  Rick Harsch fled the United States in 2001, landing in Slovenia for no important reason. He is a writer, author of maybe two works that might be familiar to a small number of readers: The Driftless Trilogy, reprinted by the press he started in Izola, Slovenia, corona\samizdat, and The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas, now published by Zerogram Press.